Black Dog

by Toby Abbot - Aquarius

All the clocks have stopped ticking, the curtains are drawn
The lines have blurred between the days
There's a black dog clawing at my door
And he wants to take me away

If only I knew what happened to the sun
And the birds, who stole their inviolable song?
All the past is dead, the future numb
And every minute seems too long

Etherized, I'm lost inside myself
Confined to this tenebrous room
Wishing I was someone or somewhere else
Lying foetal in a sepulchral womb

Despair is a spider with venomous web
That lurks in the recesses of the soul
Silent and invisible, her silver threads
Weave a labyrinth beyond all control

She stares at me with gerfalcon eyes
Draining my veins of all spirit and hope
Filling my mind with nefarious lies
Telling me that I can no longer cope

The black dog knows that spider well
And when her work is done, he lingers near
Waiting to drag you into his hell
To drown you in your silent tears


'We live as we dream, alone '


Angel of mercy, let me rest on your shoulder
In the desperate hour, when the shadows roam
Let me remember,as I get older
That I'm getting closer to my true home



I now know the longest walk
Across the dead land, where no flowers grow
Above my head, there circle hawks
Desiring to pick on these tiring bones


'Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit'


The hum of flies,and the desert heat

I could make a raindrop last for days

Trying to find a reason for my heart to beat

Lying supine in a neurasthenic haze

Embalm me in the burning sands
My mouth is dry and my heart is full
Too weak to face the final stand
Looking through the holes of a dead man's skull

I have dragged my feet through every dead end street
Every arid plain, from north to south
And never did I dare to admit defeat
In this diurnal hell of infernal drouth


'Only there is shadow under this red rock'


What is the crux, the encompassing whole
That untold, leaves this valley of darkness unlit
For it wears on every human soul
And leaves us bereft from the deficit

Religion, the wretched child of fear
Has, in my mind, long been destroyed
Veiled is the one who throws destiny's spear
Into this chasm, this nebulous void

Yet,little though I truly understand
All throughout , one thing still abides
I could never leave this land fom my own hand
For I have stared too long in beauty's lustrous eyes

Beauty and despair, they are so much alike
Both make the soul ache, though in different ways
One is like a bird that rarely takes flight
The other , traps that fragile bird in a cage


'A shadow tracks thy flight of fire'


Angel of mercy, rest your head on my shoulder
In the twilight hour,at the dead of night
Let me remember, when the world seems colder
One day, I will walk into the heart of light



In the abyss of doleful lamentation
At the silence of perdition's heart
When all is tainted with frustration
And every futile dream lies torn apart

Know the solace of shared experience
And that the darkest night will always end
Strength will be the recompense
From enduring the tempests that life may send

In this lexicon of life, with meaning obscure
There is nothing, but to rage against despair and decay
And if that black dog ever comes to your door
Never let him lead you astray.


(Quotes: the Waste Land -TS Eliot;Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad)  
Birth sign: Aquarius
Date created: 2000-07-25 18:20:13
Last updated: 2021-04-14 17:18:11
Poem ID: 57010

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